..This is followed by a brief discussion of the impact of medical illness on both anxiety and sleep disturbances. The article ends with a summary of findings from this review and provides recommendations for future research...

Adam P SpiraDivision of Geriatrics and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAAm J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:136-43. 2009

..Few studies have examined the association between anxiety symptoms and objectively measured sleep quality in older adults. The authors determined this association in a large cohort of very old community-dwelling women...

Mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and their subtypes in oldest old women

..To examine the relationship of neuropsychiatric symptoms and apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele status to dementia at baseline and progression to dementia in older adults with and without cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND)...

Behavioral correlates of sleep-disordered breathing in older men

Eric J KezirianDepartment of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USASleep 32:253-61. 2009

..In addition, it is unclear whether NPS increase risk of progression to dementia. We investigated the distribution of NPS across MCI subtypes and determined whether NPS increase risk of progression to dementia...

Impact of sleep on the risk of cognitive decline and dementia

Adam P SpiraaDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health bDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine cDepartments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland dDepartments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USACurr Opin Psychiatry 27:478-83. 2014